Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have been summoned to an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid ongoing efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, according to both Channel 12 and the Kan public broadcaster.

The two far-right ministers opposed the two previous ceasefire agreements reached with the Palestinian Hamas movement amid the ongoing war in Gaza and declared that they had thwarted other deals that could have been reached. They also threatened to topple the government if any agreement was reached that ended the war and left Hamas in power in the Palestinian enclave.